Indiana Professional Emergency Manager Courses Underway

The COVID numbers are not pretty these days, which

means of all of us continue to face challenges we

thought were behind us.

But with better data and resources to help treat and

transport those impacted by the virus, your counties

have a better toolkit to deal with the pandemic at the

local level. Also, you can be confident that IDHS and

the Indiana Department of Health are collaborating

effectively to do everything within their power to protect

Hoosiers and support all efforts at the local level.

Testing and vaccination sites remain operational across

the state. Indiana no longer has shortages of PPE and

other equipment necessary to protect the public safety

community. Hospitals, while seriously stretched right

now, are holding their own in treating the influx of

patients.

Aug. 27, 2021

Quick Links

Remember to connect local officials with one another in

a concerted, team effort to best protect your

community. Emergency management requires ongoing

collaboration and planning, which is critical in this

evolving pandemic. Most of all, take care of yourself

and make your health a priority. You remain an

important part of the solution to reaching the other side

of this ordeal.

IDHS Emergency Management

Page

WebEOC

iGMS

Mary Moran

IDHS Director of Emergency Management

IntelliGrants

Acadis Training Portal

The Hoosier Responder

IDHS Calendar of Events

New Employees join IDHS

Exercise Section

The IDHS Exercise Section is back

to fully staffed after two recent

hires.

Indiana Professional Emergency

Manager Courses Underway

Jason Chapman and Casey Fizer

started with IDHS on Aug. 23,

joining Jess Kindig and Ashley

Baldwin.

Contact information for the Exercise

Section is below if you'd like to say

hello or have any exercise-related

questions.

North Exercise Program Manager

(IDHS Districts 1-4): Jason

Chapman JChapman@dhs.

Central Exercise Program

Manager (IDHS Districts 5-7): Jess

Kindig JKindig@dhs.

South Exercise Program Manager

(IDHS Districts 8-10): Casey Fizer

CFizer@dhs.

State Exercise Officer: Ashley

Baldwin ABaldiwn@dhs.

General Exercise inbox:

Exercise@dhs.

Virtual Train-the-Trainer

Courses Scheduled

The Emergency Management

Institute recently released the 2022

NIMS ICS position-specific Trainthe-Trainer (TtT)

virtual ¡°K¡± course schedule. To view

the full schedule, visit the IDHS

Emergency Management webpage.

2021 EMAI Registration

Open

Several EMA directors and IDHS employees attended

the L0101 Foundations of Emergency Management

class at the Hendricks County 4H Fairgrounds during

the week of Aug. 16-20. This course is one of five

needed to achieve the Indiana Professional Emergency

Manager (PEM) certification.

The three remaining FEMA Basic Academy courses

needed to achieve the certification have been

scheduled:

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Sept. 7-8: L146 - HSEEP

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Oct. 4-6: L102 - Science of Disaster

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Oct. 12-13: L103 - Planning: Emergency

Operations

Registration is available in the Acadis Portal.

EMPG Compliance Clarification

EMAI conference registration is now

open. This year's conference is Oct.

20-22 at the Indianapolis Marriott

East, with pre-conference sessions

on Oct. 19. The theme for EMAI

2021 is "Together Towards

Tomorrow."

Recently, confusion has existed as to what trainings are

required for EMPG compliance. If you already have

taken the required trainings for EMPG compliance and

been approved, you are not required to retake the most

updated version of the courses. If you are new to

EMPG compliance, then you must take the most

updated versions.

Register for EMAI

These trainings are available on the FEMA Independent

Study website: .

Dates to Know

Aug. 31 - SHSP period of

performance ends

Sept. 15 - Indiana Water and

Wastewater Emergency Response

FEMA recommends personnel refresh their training

every three years or when new course versions come

out. However, it is not a requirement currently.

These are the most up-to-date trainings:

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IS-100.C: Introduction to the Incident Command

System

Functional Exercise. Click here for

registration.

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IS-200.C: Basic Incident Command System for

Initial Response

Sept. 16 - WebEOC will be down for

an upgrade from 7:30 a.m. to

approximately 11:30 a.m. A

notification will be sent to all users

upon completion.

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IS-700.B: An Introduction to the National

Incident Management System

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IS-800.D: National Response Framework, An

Introduction

Oct. 20-22 - EMAI

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IS-120.C: An Introduction to Exercises

For other upcoming dates, visit the

IDHS Calendar of Events.

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IS-230.E: Fundamentals of Emergency

Management

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IS-235.C: Emergency Planning

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IS-240.C: Leadership and Influence

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IS-241.C: Decision Making and Problem Solving

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IS-242.C: Effective Communication

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IS-244.B: Developing and Managing Volunteers

Deadline Aug. 31: Special Event

Assessment Rating (SEAR)

Read the August issue of the

Hoosier Responder and learn more

about EMAs juggling multiple public

safety roles.

Public Safety Jobs

Dashboard

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security requests all

states submit special event information for events that

are scheduled or likely to occur between Dec. 1, 2021,

and Nov. 30, 2022.

Each EMA has a Special Event (SEAR) board in

WebEOC to submit their county events for the specified

timeline no later than Aug. 31, 2021.

If anyone needs any assistance submitting events in

WebEOC, please reach out to Janice Lee at

jalee@dhs..

Reminder: Sign up now for

Operation Space Storm Exercise

Check out all the current openings

on the IDHS Public Safety Jobs

dashboard. If your agency is hiring

and would like to promote the job,

submit your information below the

dashboard. It's free.

Note: If the link above does not

load, please copy and paste this

address into the

browser:

The IDHS Exercise Section is offering a two-module

space storm exercise (tabletop and functional) in

September. It will build off the Logistical Staging Area

Workshop from this February and use draft plans for a

space storm incident.

This HSEEP compliant exercise is scheduled for three

hours, with Module 1 being a tabletop and Module 2

being a functional exercise. This exercise will be virtual;

however, Madison and Jackson County have kindly

arranged for in-person locations if participants wish to

exercise in-person.

Details:

Public Assistance Program

The Request for Public Assistance

deadline remains open. A specific

deadline for RPAs will be

announced when a disaster end

date for the COVID-19 pandemic is

established by FEMA.

Continue checking the IDHS Public

Assistance Program webpage for

updates on guidance, trainings and

other vital information.

Central and South Regions ¨C Operation Space Storm:

LSA TTX/FX

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September 22

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10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern (9 a.m. to noon

Central)

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Hybrid/in-person

Sign Up Now

Indiana Department of Homeland Security

pio@dhs.

dhs.

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